Speakers

Douglas Crockford was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. This was an important and unexpected discovery. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world’s most loved data format. And he works at PayPal.

Nov 13, 13:00-13:45 Room A and B

Keynote

James M Snell is currently IBM's Technical Lead for Node.js and a member of the Node.js TSC and CTC. At IBM, he is responsible for coordinating the company's various contributions to Node.js. He has spent his 15+ years at the company dedicated to the development of Open Source and Open Standards.

Nov 13, 14:00-14:30 Room A

Node.js and Web Standards

Node.js is, and has been, primarily a platform for Web application development. In this talk, James will discuss the evolution and future of support for Web Standards such as URL parsing and HTTP 2.0 in Node.js core.

Bradley is a senior software engineer at GoDaddy working remotely from Austin, Texas. He is a member of TC39 and an active member of the Node community. Debugging and parser tooling are some of his main interests for programming in his free time. The efforts to get Node to support ES Modules is largely being driven by Bradley with the help of other in the Node community.

Nov 13, 14:30-15:00 Room A

The journey toward ES modules.

A look into how Node will be supporting ES modules. It should give insight into the problems and solutions for supporting expectations that Babel set; as well the talk should discuss what will break and how to be prepared for the future.

Cheng Zhao created the Electron framework on 2013 when building the Atom editor, and joined Github on 2014 to work full time on it.

Nov 13, 16:15-16:45 Room A

The Evolution of Electron

I'll talk about how we tried various methods to develop Atom editor with web techniques in early days, and why we ended up creating Electron, I'll also show the current state of Electron and what it will be in future.

Yosh is a creative engineer who loves all things computer. He spends most of his days traveling around, and writing quality projects for both clients and for free. He's been an active member of the Node community for years and specializes in building tiny tools that make you squeal with excitement.

Nov 13, 15:45-16:15 Room A

boarding the tiny framework train

Three years ago the frontend community was introduced to the exciting potential of building completely functional user interfaces. We're now in a world where functional programming is gradually becoming the norm, and we're shifting to solve problems that we didn't think about years ago.
In this talk Yosh will cover the bleeding edge of frontend development, and dive deep into Choo, a modular frontend framework designed specifically to solve today's challenges.

Mathias is a non-profit Node.js hacker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He works full time on open source and is part of the Dat project, http://dat-data.com trying to build open tools to help scientists share datasets. Currently he maintains more than 400 modules on npm including a bunch of P2P and mad science stuff.

Nov 13, 15:00-15:30 Room A

Putting TV on the Internet

A journey into how we can start streaming live tv online through peer to peer networks using systems that become better the more people watch instead of crashing the stream. Using node.js and a bunch of node modules I'll show how everyone can start producing their own tv and start broadcasting it to the world.

Alejandro is a developer who loves learning new things. He is passionate about education, electronics, open-source, and community-driven events. These days, he also helps organize NodeConf Argentina and a local Node.js meetup.NodeSchool, NodeBots and the Node.js meetup at Buenos Aires.

Nov 13, 10:30 - 11:00 Room A

Demystifying JavaScript Engines

How a JavaScript engine works? What are its basic components? How to measure its performance? What is JIT compilation? Stigmatization: is JavaScript fast enough? are some of the questions I think we currently fail to answer in a, somewhat, short and direct way.

Thomas Watson is an open source Node.js hacker out of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a member of the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group and is the Node.js Lead at Opbeat - a JavaScript performance analysis and monitoring startup. He maintains over a 100 open source projects, enjoys working with mad science and implementing network protocols in JavaScript.

Nov 13, 11:00 - 11:30 Room A

Build your own JavaScript powered radio

Capture and transmit radio waves using software (and just a tiny bit of hardware). This talk is about SDR (Software Defined Radio) and how you can listen to and transcode the radio spectrum using Node.js. It allows you to interact with other radio powered devices, listen in on the data being transmitted between your cellphone and the cell-tower, intercept commercial and private airplane communication and much, much more.

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Gleb Bahmutov is JavaScript ninja, image processing expert and software quality fanatic. After receiving a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, Gleb worked on laser scanners, 3D reconstruction, and panorama-based virtual tours at EveryScape. Later Gleb switched to writing browser data visualization software at MathWorks. After a year, Gleb went back to the startup environment and developed software quality analysis tools at uTest (now Applause). Today Gleb is developing real-time financial analysis tools at Kensho. He blogs about software development topics at http://glebbahmutov.com/blog/ and links his projects at http://glebbahmutov.com/. You can follow him and his work @bahmutov

Nov 13, 16:45 - 17:15 Room A

Browser is the new server

We see the great technology unification, with the boundary between the server and the client (browser) becoming blurrier every day. Who has time and budget to write separate code bases? In this presentation I will show the ultimate combination of NPM's two most popular packages: Browserify and Express; and their product that allows to move the complete server to run inside the browser's ServiceWorker. It is like server-side rendering but inside your browser, and even runs when JavaScript is disabled!

I'm Fritz. I love dipping my toes in all kinds of things as a creator of digital and analogue things. With the band Cheeses of Mexico that means: music and videos, as well as games. As a developer it means creating Flood simulation models at www.3di.nu. As a hobbyist it means working in the wee hours of night developing stuff for the Famicom/NES, or making sourdough bread. I teach programming at a technical college in Arnhem

Nov 13, 11:00 - 11:30 Room B

Famicom programming with JavaScript

The Famicom / NES is one of those devices that took the world (and especially Japan) by force. It brought a home computer in so many homes. The characters of the popular games are known to everyone. Programming for the Famicom is fun and very educational. And best of all, you can use JavaScript. I will showcase some of the things you can do with JavaScript to program for the NES.

Barak is a London-based software engineer, entrepreneur, tech speaker, and writer. He’s passionate about emerging web technologies, great online user experiences and building great products faster and better. He’s now consulting startups in London, co-building early stage startups.

Nov 13, 11:30 - 12:00 Room B

GraphQL for the RESTful crowd

GraphQL brought along a paradigm shift in the way we think about data transfer between the front- and back-ends of applications. We are no longer restricted by imperative data structures and communicating our data requirements implicitly. Instead, by declaring the graph-form of our data model, we are able to request data in it’s object form in a JSON-like syntax that shares structure between response and request.GraphQL, along with Relay, makes the development an application, multiple applications, and multiple versions of those, a breeze. No longer do we have to maintain v1, v3 and v100 or our APIs to make sure all legacy versions are supported.For those of us that are used to relational databases and RESTful APIs GraphQL can seem daunting and quite a leap from the model we are used to. The good news is that if you use any kind of ORM or defined any form of model to your data, you’re already halfway thorough to the graph! Looking at an example REST API, we’ll go through the steps of converting both the server and the client to GraphQL - understanding along the way what are the similarities and differences in application design, both on the front-end and the back-end.

Richard Littauer is a member of Protocol Labs, busy building a better, decentralized, and permanent internet. He is dedicated to community infrastructure, and has run several NodeSchools in the developing and development world, spoken at meetups from New York to Svalbard, and spends a lot of this time making sure that docs are maintained and relevant. He likes books a lot, too.

Nov 13, 14:00 - 14:30 Room B

Why to Standardize your READMEs

If no one downloads or uses your npm module, you might need better documentation. Your README.md is the first access point for your code: I'll talk about how to use the standard-readme specification to make sure your readmes are high quality, and how the spec (which I developed) is already being used by over a hundred repositories to stop bikeshedding and save time. I'll demo a standard-readme generator and a linter, to help you write your readme. I'll also show how search can be improved by grabbing terms from the description and background, and highlight a bunch of cool ways having standard readme benefits the community as a whole.

Irina is a London via Vancouver software developer. She spends quite a bit of their time exploring the outdoors, gushing over trains, and reading some Beatniks.

Nov 13, 10:30 - 11:00 Room B

Building Interactive npm Command Line Modules

Here you are coding away, when you realize you’re in desperate need of a quick shell script to get your project cleaned up. You’re standing at a fork in the road: Bash or Node? You choose the road less travelled by (for some reason) — Node. Congratulations on this decision. You’ve written it, you may have published it, and it certainly works. But what now? Is this all a command line module Node is good for: a project clean up and some data manipulation?<br/>Let’s take it a step further. Let’s make a command line module that’s more than just your compiling script. Irina is, of course, talking about making it more interactive.<br/>In this talk Irina wants to take you on an adventure that will require cunning, bravery, and maybe some magic. She will walk through obtaining and parsing data, using Node’s process functions, and finally improving your module’s user experience.